[logback-user] smtpappender broken in 1.2.9

[Chris Cheshire]

Hi,

I upgraded logback to 1.2.9 (from 1.2.3) in my webapp (running under
tomcat) and now my SMTPAppender configuration is not working. I have
file appenders configured too, but they are all working.

Relevant config from logback.xml :

<property name="SERVER_NAME" value="XXX" />
<property name="CONTEXT_PATH" value="XXX" />
<property name="LOG_DIR" value="${catalina.base}/logs/${CONTEXT_PATH}"
scope="system" />

<appender name="email" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender">
  <sessionViaJNDI>true</sessionViaJNDI>
  <jndiLocation>java:comp/env/mail/XXX</jndiLocation>
  <to>XXX</to>
  <from>XXX</from>
  <subject>XXX</subject>
  <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
    <pattern>%date{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] [%level] %logger#%line
%n%n%mdc%n%message%n</pattern>
  </layout>
  <cyclicBufferTracker class="ch.qos.logback.core.spi.CyclicBufferTracker">
    <bufferSize>1</bufferSize>
  </cyclicBufferTracker>
  <includeCallerData>true</includeCallerData>
</appender>

Relevant resource definition in context.xml
  <Resource name="mail/XXX"
            auth="Container"
            type="javax.mail.Session"
            mail.transport.protocol="smtps"
            mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"
            mail.smtp.host="XXX"
            mail.smtp.port="587" />


Found in tomcat's default log:

23:51:33,656 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction
- About to instantiate appender of type
[ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender]
23:51:33,669 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction
- Naming appender as [email]
23:51:33,711 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender[email]
- Looking up javax.mail.Session at JNDI location
[java:comp/env/mail/XXX]
23:51:33,720 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender[email]
- Failed to obtain javax.mail.Session from JNDI location
[java:comp/env/mail/XXX]
23:51:33,720 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender[email]
- Failed to obtain javax.mail.Session. Cannot start.


Nothing else was changed, I just uploaded the new jars and restarted
tomcat and now it fails. Downgraded to 1.2.7 and SMTPAppender works
again.